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...chorus responds and steals the production. Joseph's brothers (played by both male and female actors) tell their stories to a wide variety of music. The audience never knows what to expect next. They tell their father of Joseph's demise in the form of a country-western ballad and protest the innocence of Benjamin to a Carribean beat. The absolute show stopper, however, is definitely "Those Canaan Days," performed with outrageous "Fronch" accents in the style of outdoor cafe singers during the fin-de-siecle. If for nothing else, people have to see Joseph for these great ensemble numbers...
...comes from the two central performances. Peters is cuddly yet tough. She gives vocal color and emotional depth to songs ranging from a succession of one-liners about the social advantages of an English accent to an all-purpose tirade, Take That Look off Your Face, to a delicate ballad, Come Back with the Same Look in Your Eyes. D'Amboise is limited to three facial expressions: wide-eyed wonder, hangdog hurt and a nod of sudden understanding. But he bounces through the ballet routines with every bit of the puppyish appeal that Peters has already attributed...
...with any country and western product, "Old Ways" is a few nuggets wrapped in a heap of simple-minded fluff. But Young makes no apologies. Rather, as in "Once an Angel," an insipid 6-8 love ode, and "Bound for Glory," a sweet if inconclusive ballad about a trucker committing adultery in the Canadian boondocks, the perennially angst-ridden Young has found a new peace...
...most driven performer on the show, however, may be Olmos, who plays the stone-faced Lieut. Castillo. The Los Angeles-born actor won a Tony nomination in 1979 for his supporting role in the play Zoot Suit and produced and starred in the 1983 film The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez. He has an unusual nonexclusive contract with the series, which enables him to do other work during the season. Yet Olmos approaches his role with almost mystical dedication. "One of the things I have found most exciting about Miami Vice is that they have allowed me to play this character...
...machines. "The teenagers love singing Billy Joel and Bette Midler tunes," says Musician Irene Regal, who with Husband Mike takes a Starmaker brand karaoke along to gigs at New York bar mitzvahs and parties. Properly lubricated, adults like to giggle through a moonstruck verse or two of a ballad. "It's the only way to go," says Cathy Ruggieri, 40, a hair stylist in Stony Brook, N.Y., who uses her $600 model at home and at her salon. "It makes you sound so good. I wasn't that outgoing before...